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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Momma Duck

just a quick
recap of what has been going on with my mom. in no particular order. (and
grammatically incorrect lol.)

I also have no idea why the hell it keeps posting with the white background thing. GRRR

Mom had been sick for 7 weeks with pneumonia. she ended up in the hospital.

they still
don't know what she has. they do know it's NOT contagious. they sent samples of
everything to a few different places (CDC..ect)

but she saw 3 different pulmos and they all had the same
reaction..."wow" and my mom was like "is that a good wow or a
bad wow?" obviously it was a bad wow.

her sats had
been stable and then one day they randomly went to the low 80s on 2L of o2. so
they did a bronch and sucked out over 3 cups of mucus. when I met with her
pulmo (the one she ended up staying with) I asked about different
diseases/conditions and tests and results. he actually said the words
"you know too much" after he left my mom goes "okay..what did
you say and what did he say?" he actually said the words "you know
too much".

once she was
"stable" her docs decided it was safer to send her home to be in my
"fully capable hands" than to have her stay there and risk
contracting another infection. if she gets sick again in the next few months it
could end really bad. I had to order her a HEPA filter mask for if she leaves
the house (for dr appointments and such, also for when the construction starts
on my house (from hurricane sandy)) she's not allowed to go Xmas or grocery
shopping, or anywhere with big crowds without her HEPA mask. and I went over
the house with the pledge & antibacterial wipes. she's always had a
pretty non existent immune system (respiratory wise). and no one really knows
why since her blood cell count is fine. years ago her doc told her she had
Chronic Bronchitis (a type of COPD) but her new pulmo said that was unlikely
since she never smoked. although when he did the bronch he said it did have the
appearance of COPD. (you can now see why my health is so stubborn lol)

anyway, the
doc said it will be a few months before she even starts to get back to normal.
=[

so yeah,
that's what's going on with momma duck.

P.S. funny
story.

my mom wanted
a mask attachment for her neb so she can read while she does treatments. so my
dad, trying to be helpful, went to the pharmacy and got one. my mom comes into
my room later and goes "dad got me a mask for the neb but I can't seem to
figure out how to get it on" I go upstairs and look at it. Silly daddy got
a Pari mask which doesn't fit on regular nebs. my mom turns to my dad and goes "I
appreciate the effort hun, but leave the lung stuff to the kid"

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